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With cigarettes, it's the burning that creates the issue, as the excessive amounts of heat create the carcinogens and the smoke.
by bb88 9y ago
With cigarettes, it's the burning that creates the issue, as the excessive amounts of heat create the carcinogens and the smoke.
- DanBC 9y agoChewing tobacco is still carcinogenic.
- gertef 9y agoWhat in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?
- bb88 9y agoBut perhaps not because of the nicotine. http://www.medicinenet.com/smokeless_tobacco/article.htm http://www.medicinenet.com/smokeless_tobacco/article.htm To me it's unclear whether or not nicotine itself is actually bad.
- DanBC 9y agoI haven't said nicotine is carcinogenic.
- hwillis 9y agoIt's not just the burning, many toxic chemicals are already present and the processing[1] makes it worse. The processing converts things like nicotine, and happens at relatively low temperatures- lower than those in vaporizers. Plus, keep in mind that nicotine is in tobacco as a poison for insects. Tobacco doesn't want to be consumed by humans either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco-specific_nitrosamines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco-specific_nitrosamines